Tools and Publications

Intermediary Development:
Frameworks for Success
A Quick Guide for Practitioners

This Quick Guide is designed to support Intermediary development and makes a case for going beyond addressing the individual issues facing young people in isolation, and pushes the boundaries of traditional youth-serving models to create a system that leverages services and supports designed to serve all youth. Building on the Intermediary Frameworks developed through the School-to-Work Intermediary Project and All Youth-One System model developed by New Ways to Work, the following Frameworks for Success provide a planning and implementation guide to broaden and deepen intermediary practice at the local or regional level. This guide details the Elements of such a system, identifies the Strategic and Operational Intermediary Functions necessary to create it, and outlines the Stages of Intermediary Development in implementing a system.

The conceptual frameworks address the following key questions:

• What does a comprehensive local youth-serving system look like? How are the most in need served by a comprehensive system and what core elements and service strategies need to be in place to support it?

• What are the functions a local Intermediary must perform to help build the local system to support the needs of and ensure positive outcomes for youth? What needs to be done by Intermediaries in order to bring together the right people and institutions to guide local practice, connect and leverage local systems with the resources of a range of community partners, measure the effectiveness of programs and services, and sustain effective program practices?

• What are the day-to-day operations of an intermediary in connecting systems, building capacity, providing operational supports, and creating opportunities for youth

• How does an Intermediary build a local system over time? What are the stages of local system development, and what process must be followed to move from the current state of disconnected and categorical service strategies, to an integrated, sequenced, and coordinated comprehensive system?

INet Tools

2008 INet Guides
Frameworks for Intermediary Success Quick Guide (PDF 508 kb)
The Quick Guide to Intermediary Practice (PDF 2.7 mb)

2008 INet Frameworks Charts
Elements of a Comprehensive Youth-Serving System Chart (PDF 9 mb)
Strategic Intermediary Functions Chart (PDF 4.8 mb)
Operational Intermediary Functions (PDF 4.2 mb)
Making and Managing Community Connections Stages Chart (PDF 6.0 mb)

INet Publications
INet Data and Evaluation Survey Full Report 2003 - 2004 (PDF 223 kb)
INet Data Survey Summary 2003 - 2004 (PDF 188 kb)